Old Age Quotes

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance. - French Proverb

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. - Carolyn Wells

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. - Benjamin Disraeli

Your breath comes to its end, O my merchant friend, and your shoulders are weighed down by the tyrant of old age. Not one iota of virtue came into you, O my merchant friend; bound and gagged by evil, you are driven along. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison